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Elektronická kniha: Gary Snyder – „Four Changes“ 1970 (jazyk: Angličtina)
E-kniha Gary Snyder: „Four Changes“ 1970
Gary Snyder[8.5.1930] Gary Snyder je známý jako básník, esejista, ekolog a buddhista. Narodil se roku 1930 v San Francisku. Odtud se ale jeho rodina odstěhovala na farmu v lesích ve státě Washinghton. Vyrůstal zde celé dětství, a tak není divu, že mu příroda přirostla k srdci. Od roku 1948 začal studovat antropologii a mytologii na portlandské Reed College. Studiu se moc...
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Everything that lives eats food, and is food in turn. This complicated animal, homo sapiens, rests on a vast and delicate pyramid of energy-transformations. To grossly use more than you need to destroy is biologically unsound. Most of the production and consumption of modern societies is not necessary or conducive to spiritual and cultural growth, let alone survival -- and is behind much greed and envy, age old causes of social and international discord.
Humanity's careless use of "resources" and our total dependence on certain substances such as fossil fuels (which are being exhausted, slowly but certainly), are having harmful effects on all the other members of the life-network. The complexity of modern technology renders whole populations vulnerable to the deadly consequences of the loss of any one key resource. Instead of independence we have over-dependence on life-giving substances such as water, which we squander. Many species of animals and birds have…
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